Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

M.F. Rice

Project StaffB Reactor/100 Area

Hanford, WA
Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
The first large-scale nuclear reactor in history, the B-Reactor, in Hanford, Washington

Rice worked at the 100-F area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project.

Related Profiles

Claude E. McLenon

Tinian Island

Claude E. McLenon served as a technical sergeant in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was a member of the ground crew regularly assigned to the B-29 Big Stink, and he and his crew were later reassigned to Luke the Spook.

John A. Snyder

Hanford, WA

John H. Harrington, Jr.

Tinian Island

John H. Harrington, Jr. served as a sergeant in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron.

Howard Hendrickson

Los Alamos, NM